If a statue of a horseman has both horse's legs in the air, the person died in a battle. If only one leg is up, the person died of the wounds from the battle. If all four legs are down, the person died by natural death.

In spite of the belief, donkeys are one of the most intelligent Equidae. For example, they use the hair on their chin to see if a fence is electrocuted and they won’t step onto a dangerous place, unless their master steps on it first.

If you sneeze to hard, you can break a rib. If you, however, try to stop a sneeze buy holding your nose with your fingers, you can cause a burst of an artery in your head or your neck and die. If you try to violently keep your eyes during sneezing, they will pop out of their sockets.

Human tears are produced by four glands near the eye, they wash the cornea and run into the nose. If there are too many, they spill over the leads. The interesting thing is that a person produces around half a liter of tears, even if they are not crying.

In Kual D 'Alene, couples who make love in cars are protected by law. A policeman cannot simply walk to the car and knock on the window. If there is a smallest suspicion that someone is making love in a car, a policeman must stop his car, honk three times and then approach the car after two minutes.

Human orgasm lasts an average of four minutes. Pigs, on the other hand, enjoy for a half an hour. During three days of mating, lions make their female partners happy in every 15 minutes. Australian mice are so active, that males can die of exhaustion. Elephants are finished in three seconds.

Every day, 4 kilos of plastic is produced on the whole planet. It’s interesting that you can make a chair out of 150 recycled bottles and 15 of them are enough for a sweatshirt. We can no longer live without plastic, but it may become a problem if we don’t remove it properly. Think about it sometimes. You can do great things with small gestures.

Dolphins have privileges with men because the proportion of their brain and their body is approximately the same as in men. They are considered one of the most intelligent beings. Dolphins are used for treating handicapped children, but people also train them for military purposes (setting explosives, etc.). They can swim up to 50 km/h.

If you feel like going to the beach, you better get some info on some of the inhabitants of the Pacific. On of them is a jellyfish called the sea wasp. It is a sea creature, scarier than 50 very poisonous snakes! And the most dangerous snake is the crite snake, which lives in China, in the eastern part of Mjanmar (ex Burma). It is called “the five step snake”, because of the belief that a man can walk five steps after being bitten.

When the ships were made of wood, the loopholes and the windows were square. In 19th century, when they started building steel ships, they found that the material in the corners was more likely to decade than the other parts and that’s why the water got through those parts easier. Round windows, which are called “bull’s eyes” in some countries, are more resistant and long-lasting. Thanks to those, many sea accidents were avoided.

The first city ever to have a population of a million was Rome, in 133 B.C. London didn’t get its millionth resident until 1810, and New York until 1875. Today, there is around 300 cities in the world with a population of over a million.

Among all the animals, lynx has the sharpest hearing: even in its deepest sleep, it hears the quietest noise, coming from afar. This animal owes its hearing abilities to little “brushes” on the top of its ears, which serve as a sort of antenna.

Did you know why is a hotdog called a hotdog? A butcher from Frankfurt who owned a dachshund named the long frankfurter sausage a “dachshund sausage,” the dachshund being a slim dog with a long body. “Dachshund” is German for “badger dog.” They were originally bred for hunting badgers. German immigrants introduced the dachshund sausage to the United States. In 1871, German butcher Charles Feltman opened the first “hotdog” stand in Coney Island, selling 3,684 dachshund sausages, most wrapped in a milk bread roll, during his first year in business.

Did you know that hamburger first appeared in 1834? The honor of producing the first proper hamburger goes to Charlie Nagreen of Seymour, Wisconsin, USA. In 1885 Nagreen introduced the American hamburger at the Outgamie County Fair in Seymour. He is recognized as the hamburger capital of the world. However, there is another claim to that throne. There is an account of Frank and Charles Menches who, also in 1885, went to the Hamburg, New York county fair to prepare their famous pork sausage sandwiches.

Did you know that it's actually true that eating carrots can help you see better? Carrots contain Vitamin A, which feeds the chemicals that the eye shafts and cones are made of. The shafts capture black and white vision. The cones capture color images. About one person in 30 is color blind. More men than women are affected by color blindness. Healthy eyes are so sensitive to light that a candle burning in the dark can be detected 1,6km (1 mile) away. The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors. There currently is no machine that can achieve this remarkable feat.

Did you know that in 1950, Diners Club and American Express launched their charge cards in the USA? That was the first “plastic money”. In 1951, Diners Club issued the first credit card to 200 customers who could use it at 27 restaurants in New York. But it was only until the establishment of standards for the magnetic strip in 1970 that the credit card became part of the information age. The word credit comes from Latin, meaning “trust”. Ironically. Almost half of all credit card disputes are about internet transactions.

Did you know that in the mountains of Bohemia, a mining hole produced much silver becoming the source of coinage for the entire Holy Roman Empire? The mine was in a valley called Joachimsthal, and the coins came to have the same name, Joachimstalers. Over time this became shortened to Talers and over more time, the American pronunciation of the word became the name for the currency that you would like to have in your pocket. The $ sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, using a combination of Spanish money symbols.

Did you know that more than hundred billion of crayons have been produced so far? The first crayons consisted of a mixture of charcoal and oil. In the early 1900s, cousins Edwin Binney and Harold Smith developed a nontoxic wax crayon. Binney’s wife, Alice, attached the French word for chalk, craie, with “ola,” from oily, to form the Crayola brand name. Their first box of Crayola crayons were sold for a nickel in 1903.

Did you know that caffeine increases the power painkillers like aspirin? That is why it is found in some medicines. Ironically, caffeine withdrawal also is one of the most common causes of headaches. Women who drink 2 or more cups of coffee a day also have an increased risk of developing osteoporosis. This, however, can be offset by drinking milk or yogurt to replace the lost calcium. Most studies have found that high caffeine consumption impairs fertility, and taken during pregnancy may cause premature or defected birth.